1:35pm Topic 1: "You can't be serious!" A review the political rhetoric, legislative intent and judicial interpretation of Serious Injury over 25 years.Speaker: Richard LARGE, Partner Thomson Geer The right to unfettered common law damages was the subject of upheaval in the 1980s. Regarded as expensive, out of date with modern life and unsustainable in the workplace setting, the government of the day started eroding those rights before creating a gateway threshold known as serious injury in 1992. What then followed was many years of political debate over the sustainability of the modified rights, abolition of common law rights entirely before restoration of common law with the gateway threshold and further attempts to restrict access. Reviewing the history of serious injury may help understand the evolution of the expression and provide a fresh perspective to the ongoing debate about its sustainability.

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